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TIL The city of Chattanooga, TN built a publicly funded ISP with speeds of 1000mbps for $70/mo.

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dDMnZ TIL that although Thomas Hart Benton was a loyal aide to future President Andrew Jackson, he still fought a duel with him, in which Jackson was nearly killed.
VM0aD TIL that it is illegal to include the Emergency Broadcast system alert tones in any broadcast media in any context, unless it's coming through the actual Emergency Broadcast System. Even when remixed to sound different, networks can be fined thousands of dollars for each time the tone is broadcast.
wor8J TIL Adolf Hitler was a cartoonist for the army newspaper during World War I
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yMyX TIL that it takes 45 minutes to take a poop in space.